OK I can see your point there (though not with your first post referring to Aids/being Gay). I guess the point is that Freddie Mercury / Queen achieved/still have immense global recognition - not to mention dressing up in crowns etc! Not sure who'd you pick as a really modern icon though. Obviously there is Stones/McCartney/Bowie, but they are just as rooted in the 60s/70s as Queen.Deeping wrote:
I think you missed my point, maybe I wrote it badly. I thought the closing ceremony was to promote Britain to the rest of the world and what it stood for. I sited FM as not typically British, was I wrong in your opinion. I said they showed him on a video, why not use a performance of some who is here with use, live as it were instead of a recording? Promoting Britain for what it is now not what it was by using an old recording.
Getting wildly off topic here...the curious thing about Freddie Mercury was that I never even realised he was Asian in origin until way after his death. I suspect if he was starting out now, he'd be hailed as the first British Asian mega star. In the 70s, that side wasn't exactly suppressed but certainly wasn't mentioned. I guess that actually says something itself about how the UK is changing.
Anyway, back to the scooters, how did they all manage a complete circuit of the arena without one breaking down???
and Jessie Jay/ Taio Cruz..... oh and Lennon's dead too so he shouldn't have featured, but I'd rather watch a video of him than have to put up with listening to Paul McCartney struggling to sing live again. 
